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Dan Jenks
@dantjenks.bsky.social
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Reading. Cycling. Education. https://substack.com/@dan1997690?r=4hxm6&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 7h
Things I didn’t expect… a Big Star fan doing the NY Connections compiling today.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 1d
Krasznahorkai is a return to bleak difficult European winners of the Nobel.
Whilst I like him, I don’t think I’ll be encouraging many of my mates to read him.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 1d
Afraid not. Hopefully someone on here might be.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 1d
Very exciting
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 1d
Excellent- looking forward to it already.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 2d
I’ll put it in the calendar. Front row seat
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 3d
Innit
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 3d
Ah well, when I commit to a thing.
I must say the annotations online were useful for some of the more obscure arcana at play
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 3d
“I’d rather have my mind expanded than my taste confirmed.”
Well, I took @iammilliam.bsky.social at his word and plunged into the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen multiverse - I’m glad I did - I didn’t love everything but it was a rich reading experience which I’d recommend
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 4d
The view on the Delta this morning
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 4d
Huzzah!
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 4d
I think Tim Burrows picked up the torch in his Invention of Essex.
And you can still find people riding beautiful Hetchins steel bikes round here.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 5d
Right up my Highway 61. I’ll check it out.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 6d
@danc.bsky.social sorry Dan
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 8d
Before playtime let us consider the possibilities/ of getting stoned on milk.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
Where are you now, Batman?

Don’t tell me Alan Moore didn’t read this before League and Watchmen.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
Mad mangled crocodile of love
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
I now remember where my copy came from.
I stole it from the school library which now I think of it is a very Little Johnny thing to do.
God,
I
Loved
That
Book.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
Ahh man Brian Patten. Really one of the most important poets from my adolescence- Little Johnny’s Confession was a permanent companion - I literally could recite loads off by heart. A beautifully tender hearted bard.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
Not. Not overwhelming ffs.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
The Picasso at the Tate Modern is wonderfully curated - playful and thoughtful - wide ranging yet overwhelming.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
Innit
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
Here you go.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 9d
I would also draw your attention to Queen Sarah Perry’s recent instagram post after she’d just finished St Gwendoline Riley’s latest.
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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 10d
They’ve sent me on a course - I think mainly to remind me how lucky I am not to have spent the last 25 years commuting. I have suitable @backlisted.bsky.social Reading material with me.
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